5 Things In 15 Minutes: Good Vibes in DEI

5 Things in 15 Minutes / No Matter Why

Episode Summary

Gearah Goldstein 🏳️‍🌈, Founder of The GenderCool Project, and I recap the latest 5 Things (good vibes in DEI) in just 15 minutes. This week our conversation is about non-binary marathon runners, employee wages, and more!

Episode Notes

If you’re a long-time reader of 5 Things, you may have noticed that it doesn’t matter to me why an organization decides to “do the right thing” – to embed equity and inclusion into its systems as a way to accelerate the promises of diversity. 

I don’t care whether an organization is working on DEI initiatives because everyone else is because they see the promises of higher revenue because they want to reduce turnover, because they don’t want to be left in the dust, or because it’s just the right thing to do. I don’t care why Hard Rock is paying $100 million in wage hikes (as you’ll read below). I care about the long-term benefits.

Don’t get me wrong: having an inspirational and aligned purpose will only help organizations get there faster (if they effectively rally employees around that purpose) – but if it’s just about making more money, that’s fine, too. Real change, the systems and policy change that I write about every week here, that I wrote about in my awesome book Inclusive 360, is replicable, scalable, and sustainable. 

In my conversations with clients, I will keep making the business case because – whatever works.

Here are the good vibes I found this week:

  1. Patagonia’s Founder Transfers Ownership Into Two Entities to Help Fight the Climate Crisis
  2. Runners for the First Time Had the Option to Select Nonbinary, Male, or Female in Response to the Gender Question for their Boston Marathon Registration
  3. Doordash Invests in Employee Resource Groups by Compensating Leaders
  4. Casino Company Hard Rock to Spend $100 Million to Raise Employees’ Wages
  5. This Year Marks the First Ever South Asian New York Fashion Week (SANYFW)

Read the full blog here: https://www.theequalityinstitute.com/equality-insights-blog/5-things-no-matter-why

To learn more about Gearah Goldstein and The GenderCool Project, visit: https://gendercool.org/